Good Stuff

I can't even remember how I stumbled across this one tonight.  One story linked to another story.  Then that story linked to a YouTube video.  Then I started clicking on random shit along the right side of the screen.  Eventually I wound up on this one.  One of my favorite songs, as it turns out.

Anyhow, some of you trucker types will enjoy the footage that this dude has put together.  And he edited it quite well, just for good measure.



As for me, I bounce back and forth between various songs that I think encapsulate my life at any given moment.  For now, I think this one is damned near perfect.  ...Which one will I be today?...

Maybe you can relate.  Maybe not.

♫ Winners and losers
Turn the pages of my life
We’re beggars and choosers
With all the struggles and the strife
I got no reason
To turn my head and look the other way
We’re good and we’re evil
Which one will I be today?

There’s saints and sinners
Life’s a gamble and you might lose
There’s cowards and heroes
Both have been known now to break the rules
There’s lovers and haters
The strong and the weak will all have their day
We’re devils and angels
Which one will I be today?

Chorus:
Are you happy now with all the choices you’ve made?
Are there times in life when you know you should’ve stayed?
Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?
Winners and losers, which one will you be today?

There’s a light and a dark side
Standing at the crossroads, there we’ll meet
There’s prophets and fools there
The lies and the truth, will be at our feet
I got a reason
To turn my head and look the other way
Its heaven and hell here
Which one will I live today?

Chorus:
Are you happy now with all the choices you’ve made?
Are there times in life when you know you should’ve stayed?
Did you compromise and then realize the price was too much to pay?
Winners and losers, which one will you be today?

Which one will you be today?
Which one will I be today? ♫

Bonus points if you recognized Culpepper Country Restaurant from the beginning of the video.

I knew something looked familiar.  The layout of the roads suggested Texas, but there was a place in Mississippi that seemed to come to mind as well.  My time traveling the highways and byways went by in a hurry at times.  A lot of it was a blur.  I actually took some time to read random posts from this blog a little while ago.  I don't remember half the stuff that I wrote about, but then there are some little details that seem to come to mind instantly.  It's weird how that works.

After a little slow-mo replay, I identified the roads in this video and... yep.  Texas.  I stopped for dinner one night, two and a half hours or so out of Lancaster.  The food was unremarkable and so was the service.  The waitress was unattractive and the price was nothing special.  Something about that grungy gravel lot stuck with me though.  I didn't have a beautiful wife seeing me off, as this fella apparently did, but still there was something about that place.  I can't even remember what I had for dinner.  Just that gravel lot, the Texas heat, and a lot of miles to cover.

Oh, and there was some old dude in a rundown pickup truck on I-30 that night after I left the restaurant.  He would drive just a little slower than I was driving.  Then, when I finally got sick of it and started to go around, he would go a little faster and leave me hanging out to dry in the left lane.  After I gave up and fell back in behind him, he would start to go a little slower.  Until I decided it was time to go around... rinse, recycle, repeat.  Yep.  I remember that night.

This equipment hauler guy did a good job with his video though.  That was actually supposed to be the point of this post.  I came across the video at random and reached an instant conclusion.  Good stuff.